OnEarth articles

Recent articles from OnEarth

The long wait before something happens.(editor's letter)
January 1, 2008... YOU'LL FIND IN THESE PAGES SOME BRILLIANT SOLUTIONS TO SEVERAL OF OUR planet's more vexing crises. And yet... Discerning what those solutions should be is often merely a halting first step across the wide chasm between knowledge and action--a long, agonizing stretch of time when societies...

Reaching new heights in the Rockies.(view from NRDC)
January 1, 2008... THE NOVELIST WALLACE STEGNER WROTE THATTHE AMERICAN West is "a region where optimism consistently outruns resources." That was certainly true of the past century, when companies extracted the West's treasures with little thought to its wildlife, old-growth forests, and limited water supply....

NRDC in the news.(view from NRDC)(Natural Resources Defense Council)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... "FROM BMW TO HONDA, from Chrysler to Volkswagen, the industry is rushing to make vehicles that use less gasoline or don't rely on it at all.... 'Companies that want to thrive in a world where carbon matters and there's $80-a-barrel oil can't just swing for the fences' with one big effort...

There are too many of us.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... SOME OF US MAY GET THE "HAPPY ending" you refer to in the panel discussion on solutions for the planet led by Elizabeth Kolbert ("In Search of a Happy Ending," Fall 2007), but our children's children will not. The level of consumption, waste, and growth in this country alone is unsustainable....

Family planning.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... I consistently enjoy your publication and appreciate the work you do. Elizabeth Kolbert's panel discussion in your Fall 2007 issue illustrated the inherent difficulties in identifying solutions to global warming. Some panelists were accused of making the situation seem so complex as to be...